Animated videos advance adoption of agriculture techniques
Credit: Michigan State University In remote areas with low literacy rates, showing animated videos in the local language demonstrating agricultural ...
Tag: Language/Linguistics/Speech
What is a scream? The acoustics of a primal human call
Researchers hone in on what makes screams distinctiveCredit: Emory University Screams are prompted by a variety of emotions -- from ...
Finding meaning in ‘Rick and Morty,’ one burp at a time
Acoustic analysis of belching during speech showcases the cartoon's rich array of nonword soundsCredit: Jessica Moore SAN DIEGO, December 5, ...
Trash talk hurts, even when it comes from a robot
Discouraging words from machines impair human game playCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--Trash talking has a long and colorful history of ...
Why only some post-stroke survivors can ‘copy what I say’
Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to copy what another speaker says, ...
Humans’ ability to read dogs’ facial expressions is learned, not innate
The first comprehensive study of the human ability to recognize the facial expressions of dogs suggests this ability is mainly ...
What Reddit’s basketball fans can tell us about online discourse
Credit: Zhang et al. 2019 Basketball season kicked off last month and with it comes the return of the most ...
Research worth ‘bragging’ about
An MU psychology professor and students provide a possible way to improve dialogue in relationshipsCredit: University of Missouri On a ...
From Haft Tappeh to the world wide web
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz und Mainz University of Applied Sciences are digitizing 3,500-year old cuneiform textsCredit: photo/©: Dr. Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi ...
Smartphone typing speeds catching up with keyboards
A study of over 37,000 users shows that the 'typing gap', the difference typing speeds between mobile devices and physical ...
Cerebral reperfusion of reading network predicts recovery of reading ability after stroke
New Jersey researchers find early reperfusion of left reading network predicts reading ability in people recovering from left-sided strokeCredit: Kessler ...
Artificial throat could someday help mute people ‘speak’
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2019, 10.1021/acsnano.9b03218 Most people take speech for granted, but it's actually a complex process that ...
Scholars weigh in on new ideas about autism
Authors of provocative paper about social engagement reply to commentariesCredit: Nick Gonzales A new paper that challenges widely held ideas ...
Study finds maternal race not a factor for children experiencing a ‘language gap’
In a first of its kind study, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Frank Porter Graham ...